STANFORD/PALO ALTO MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NEWSLETTER Vol 11 No.9 • September 2002 Asanté Product Details in Depth port with automatic transfer for failed normal mode. Up September Meeting Report to 8 simultaneous tunnels are available. NAT firewall plus secure packet inspection is provided. System by Dell Bleiler & John Schipper detects, and protects against, 11 types of denial of ser- vice attacks and provides e-mail alerts and remote log- ging. This is a true VPN mode, not merely a pass- through. No special client software is required. Retail prices are $169 for the VR2004C and $325 for the VR2004AC. The Friendly NET FX4000 series is a 4- slot, chassis-based modular switching system with mul- tiple media options. AeroLan 1211-DP is available with Macintosh and Windows drivers and includes removable antennae for extended range and security mode. Retails for $159. The AeroLan 3011-DP provides PCI wireless conform- ing to IEEE 802.11b and works with OS 9.x and more recent OSs on any PCI slot PowerMac. Michael Prewitt, Territory Manager for Asanté Technologies, presented a very detailed discussion of Aasnté 1000 Base T Solutions includes a 1000 Base T many of the company’s networking products which network card that supports 1000T, 100TX and 10T for are available for the Macintosh and for other operat- 32-bit and 64-bit communications with PCI, and sup- ing systems. He also offered a special September Mac ports CAT 5. The Asanté 1000 Base T WorkGroup User Group promotional on several Asanté products Continued on page 3 –described later. The following products were discussed: Friendly NET GX4-800 is a plug and play Gigabit IN THIS ISSUE WorkGroup switch, having 8 ports with auto-uplink and available as 10/100/1000 Base T format; this replaces the former GX4-800G BIC and retails for $899. The Friendly Asanté Product Details in Depth ..................1 NET GX8-200 is a more affordable Gigabit switch for Alan Felgate–Adobe Products ......................2 individual power users and small groups, available with 8 SMUG September Meeting Schedule ..........2 ports and auto-uplink in 10/100 Base T format, and with 2 ports with auto-uplink in 10/100/10000 Base T format; Director’s Cut ................................................3 each retails for $299. Shareware News –September Demo ...........4 Friendly NET VP1100 is a 10/100 wireless ready print Tip O’ the Month.............................................6 server for Mac, Windows, LINUX, UNIX and Netware. Security And You ...........................................6 This provides SNMP management with a Internet primitive Simply Mac .....................................................6 protocol. The system provides a PCMCIA slot for an optional IEEE 802.11b wireless device. It works with New Product Releases...................................6 GhostScript and with OSX and InkJet printers. Retail prices Silent Auction .................................................7 are $149, for the VP1101L parallel printer port, and $179, Calendar of SMUG Events.............................7 for the VP1120U USB printer port. SMUG new home page Friendly NET VR2004 covers a series of VPN security http://www.pa-smug.org routers, having 4 ports and a 10/100 LAN format and 1 port 650 - 286 -7539 and a 10/100 WAN format as options. A back-up modem Page 1 Smug Contacts ALAN FELGATE : The New Millennium Adobe Design Guru SMUG Office By Stewart Hersey, VP P.O. Box 20132 Stanford CA, 94309 Here’s a brief bio of designer/web developer/multimedia guru Alan Felgate, 650 286-7539 the presenter from Adobe who will be demonstrating some cool new tools for WEB Site the Mac at our Sept. 9th Monday night SMUG meeting. ht t p : / w w w . p a - s m u g . o r g Alan Felgate is a Business Development Manager with the Creative Club Mailing List Professional Group at Adobe Systems, Inc. Alan covers Adobe’s Print, Web, sm u g u s e r g r o u p @ y a h o o g r o u p s . c o m and Digital Video solutions, including Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, InDesign 2, GoLive 6, LiveMotion 2, AlterCast 1.5, Premiere 6.5, and After Effects 5.5. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Frank Smith,, President Alan comes from a background in art, multimedia development, and training, (510) 477-0969 and is a graduate of Columbia College, NYC, with a B.A. in English frank_smith@p a - s m u g . o r g Literature and Visual Arts. Prior to joining Adobe in April 2000, Alan was a Stewart Hersey, Secretary Senior Evangelist with Macromedia, Inc. for two years and a developer in (650) 723-7153 Shockwave Product Management for one year. He’s a much sought after hersey@p a - s m u g . o r g guest speaker, who has been noted among the contributors to RSUB. Founded Tom Mathieu, Treasurer in 1995 as a division of Razorfish, Inc., RSUB gained immediate recognition (650) 494-7760 tmathieu@p a - s m u g . o r g in digital media by producing one of the first World Wide Web sites to feature dynamic content,the Blue Dot. View one of Alan’s collaborations, Rob Ruether, Director-at-Large CyberSlacker 2001, at this Internet URL: (650) 856-7418 RobRuether@p a - s m u g . o r g http://www.thebluedot.com/thenveIope/cybersIacker/index.html Julia Huot, Director-at-Large As recently as August 20th, Alan presented at MACNEXUS: the Sacramento (408) 257-4757 [email protected] Macintosh User Group. He lives in San Francisco, CA and has covered the Western Region for Adobe since April 2000. In his spare time, Alan enjoys NON-BOARD OFFICER travel, outdoor activities, reading, and film. Experience some of his interac- Stewart Hersey, Vice President tive artistic works at the official Alan Felgate web site: (650) 723-7153 hersey@p a - s m u g . o r g http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1806/ COMMITTEES Membership Ilana Braun, Chair (650) 493-6197 ilanab@p a - s m u g . o r g SMUG september 9 Scott Spencer Assistant [email protected] Meeting Schedule 6:30 - 9:30 6:30 - 6:45 Ask the Experts NEWSLETTER What ails your Mac? Lorrie Bleiler, Editor/Designer (650) 948-1400 phone and fax 6:45 - 7:15 Stu’s SMUG’s Shots John Schipper, Staff Writer (650) 493 -8048 7:15 - 7:45 Shareware Demos Dave Aston /shareware team Mike Thornburg, Distribution (650) 856-3247 7:45 - 8:00 Break / Disk Sales [email protected] Louis Bookbinder, News and Tips 8:00 - 9:15 Alan Felgate of Adobe Products will be the presenter for booky@p a - s m u g . o r g the September meeting. The proposed agenda is Photoshop 7 with a subtopic of switching from Quark to WEB SITE Robert Kunzler, Webmaster InDesign 2 [email protected] 9:20 Raffle Adobe will also donate a prize of GoLive 6 Page 2 continued from page1 ports for the Macintosh OSX, AsantéTalk (provides switches provide 14-port 10/100 plus two 1000 Base T LocalTalk to Ethernet conversion), 16-port and 24-port switches (priced at $899), and an 8-port 10/100 switch Friendly NET hubs and switches, 4-port and 7-port USB plus a 2-port 1000 Base T switch (priced at $299). hubs, and intercore switches. Asanté high density Gigabit Ethernet switches include the FriendlyNET GX4 series and others. The Asanté Mark Prewitt can be reached at Asanté, PO Box 1066, 1000T GBIC is believed to be the world’s first Gigabit The Dalles Oregon 97058; Tel 541 296-6433 /Fax-6434, 1000 Base T module, using a low power design. Cell 503 708-4413 or: Asanté routers and internal gateways include six func- Web: [email protected]é.com. tions in an integrated Internet gateway. A NAT router Special Mac User Group promotional offer shares one port address with up to 253 others, providing (good through September 2002). a natural firewall, with only one port exposed to the Internet. The system has a 10/100 switch, a DHCP serv- September specials are: er and a print server. Using GhostScript, the system can FR3004LC router for $75; FAST 10/100 PCI intercon- print to Inkjets using OSX. nect for $26; and/or a FH408 switching hub for $49. New Wireless FR3002 modules include a Friendly NET For further details consult Asanté Web site at FR3002AL, with PCM (priced at $289) and a PCMCIA http://www.asante.com/salesdocs/MacUserGroupMem NIC card for Macintosh and Windows (priced at $119). bers/061302.pdf. Prewitt also briefly covered the FR5000 Series cable/DSL routers, tri-platform NIC cards, PCI USB transported for twelve-hours, to travel back over one-half century. People of the Kasuga district say it resembles a Director’s Cut time capsule; little did I know that a whole different can of worms was waiting to be opened. TAKE ONE by Stewart Matthew Hersey As my father-in-law and I exchanged greetings the next day, I couldn’t help but admire his new iMode portable phone. It made my Nokia look like a brick. He mentioned that the Aptiva had stopped working, and in the same breath, suggested I accompany him to buy a notebook For three years I lived with my in-laws on their organic computer that he wanted to use with a digital camera. farm in Nagano, Japan. During that period I offered to Within the hour we were sipping tea and eating ice cream teach my father-inlaw about computers. Although my with my wife’s relatives in Ueda Town, and a few min- Performa was running an English version of OS 7.6, I also utes later, bounding up the steps to the third floor of a had an IBM Aptiva with Windows 98 in Japanese.